Summer reads for young people
We're getting a good number of book reviews for the Tribune's children's "Read & Write" summer books program. We're inviting kids ages 5-16 to submit book reviews for publication in...
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Audrey Grahame and Jeff Raden: Finding love at Lit Fest
Certain questions must be asked before you get serious with someone. "Do you want to live in the city or the suburbs?" "Do you want kids?" "What's your religious affiliation?"...
Prairie advice
Don't poke badgers with sticks. It's common-sense advice offered by the new e-book "Don't Trade the Baby for a Horse: And Other Ways to Make Your Life a Little More...
Cris Mazza to release a memoir
Cris Mazza, the director of the Graduate Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will release her memoir, tentatively titled "Something Wrong With Her," in 2013. The...
‘Sylvia’ and her cats to stop complaining, misbehaving on the comics page
She's commented on every U.S. president from Reagan to Obama, she's never been shy about declaring her opinions (often liberal and feminist), she'll smoke where and when she wants, she...
John Barr, Gillian Flynn, Randy Albers
?John Barr, the first president of the Poetry Foundation, has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Barr, who has held this position for almost a...
A new spin on March Madness
At last month's Write Club, a competitive literary reading series, the theme was class warfare. And yet the whole evening felt oddly comfortable, like a raucous dinner conversation among writers...
A new spin on March Madness
At last month's Write Club, a competitive literary reading series, the theme was class warfare. And yet the whole evening felt oddly comfortable, like a raucous dinner conversation among writers...
John Barr, Gillian Flynn, Randy Albers
?John Barr, the first president of the Poetry Foundation, has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Barr, who has held this position for almost a...
The Question: What was your favorite book as a child?
"'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto....